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    "Foxy Knoxy" Defense Not Doing Well • World's "Oldest Mother" Reported Dead At 69

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    Image of greeneyedfem greeneyedfem
    07/16/09

    In reply to "Foxy Knoxy" Defense Not Doing Well • World's "Oldest Mother" Reported Dead At 69

    That menstruation tattoo looks like it's derived from the attached graphic.



    I've seen it on a few blogs, but never with an original source cited. I kinda think it's totally awesome and yet it still makes me a little squeamish (why is there a rabbit in her period blood??). And I guess those things in her hands are pads or tampons? Not sure why they have sharp little teeth, though. So many questions!
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    07/16/09

    @greeneyedfem: Jez has used this graphic a number of times, in fact, when talking about period-related issues.

    As for the rabbit, maybe it's an allusion to the rabbit dying when one's pregnant?
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    Image of greeneyedfem greeneyedfem
    07/16/09

    @broad: The racoon could be the sleep I lose when my cramps keep me up. No idea for the sheep or bat-thing.

    Cramps and a dying rabbit are pretty negative, though. And everyone looks so happy! I really just want to know what the artist was thinking.
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    Image of CherriSpryte CherriSpryte
    07/15/09

    In reply to "Foxy Knoxy" Defense Not Doing Well • World's "Oldest Mother" Reported Dead At 69
    Is Taraeh Mousavi in any way related to the candidate Hir Mousavi? It didn't say so in the link, and I'm not familiar with Iranian last names, but does anyone know? Not that it makes what happened to her any more or less horrible, but I was just wondering.
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    07/15/09

    @CherriSpryte: I have no idea if they are related, but there are a lot of common Iranian surnames. They could be, but it could be distant.
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    07/15/09

    In reply to "Foxy Knoxy" Defense Not Doing Well • World's "Oldest Mother" Reported Dead At 69
    Red, white, blue.....hot pants?



    Did someone throw eggs at her?
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    07/15/09

    In reply to "Foxy Knoxy" Defense Not Doing Well • World's "Oldest Mother" Reported Dead At 69
    I originally read that first line as "Alleged murderess", which reminded me of how I hate gender-specific occupation titles like "actress". Male and female performers do the same job, so why not give 'em the same noun? If I'm sick, I don't go see a "doctress".
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    Image of whynotshesaid whynotshesaid
    07/15/09

    @liz.lemonade: Dude, I tried to make that stand when Farrah Fawcett died. The quickie obit I wrote about her referred to her as an "actor." You would not believe the amount of shit I took, from audience as well as bosses. We have a ways to go.
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    07/15/09

    In reply to "Foxy Knoxy" Defense Not Doing Well • World's "Oldest Mother" Reported Dead At 69
    It fucking figures that the one time my hometown shows up on Jezebel, it's for its shitty treatment of homeless people.
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    Image of SarahMC SarahMC
    07/15/09

    In reply to "Foxy Knoxy" Defense Not Doing Well • World's "Oldest Mother" Reported Dead At 69
    A domestic violence shelter? Not in my backyard!
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    Image of NellMood NellMood
    07/15/09

    @SarahMC: I'm doing this!: Everyone knows abuse survivors are unsavory. Think of the children! But not the children who have been abused- don't think about them.
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    07/15/09

    In reply to "Foxy Knoxy" Defense Not Doing Well • World's "Oldest Mother" Reported Dead At 69
    A prominent and very respected domestic abuse prevention agency around here is trying to secure property to open a halfway house for abused women and children. The residents of the affluent town are so against it, it's unbelievable. They're all screaming that these abused women will make their neighborhoods dissolve into a mess of drug use and abusive boyfriends. It bears mentioning that this agency's other locations are in impoverished or low income areas, out of the eyes of the county elite, who have no issue attending lavish galas at nearby country clubs and pledging bits of money to help make a change in these women's lives. But, mention that these women will be living and working within the same town as them and they run screaming to the town council to stop the project.
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    07/15/09

    In reply to "Foxy Knoxy" Defense Not Doing Well • World's "Oldest Mother" Reported Dead At 69
    "Maria del Carmen Bousada, the woman believed to be the world's oldest mother—she had twins at age 66—has passed away. The cause of death is unknown."



    Exhaustion. Twins at 66? That poor woman died of exhaustion.
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    07/15/09

    In reply to "Foxy Knoxy" Defense Not Doing Well • World's "Oldest Mother" Reported Dead At 69
    Residents of a Washington, DC neighborhood object to a proposed domestic violence shelter for women and children by likening it to a sex club and complaining that it will attract too many men to the area.



    what what what what?
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    Image of TheFormerJuneBronson TheFormerJuneBronson
    07/15/09

    @Ailatan: Because everyone knows the real reason you leave an abusive relationship: so you can move into a sex club with your kids.
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    07/15/09

    @TheFormerJuneBronson: Of course! How silly of me!
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    07/15/09

    In reply to "Foxy Knoxy" Defense Not Doing Well • World's "Oldest Mother" Reported Dead At 69
    i'm going to venture a guess that those "ghosts" in the period tattoo are tampons, eager to be used. that said, that sort of utter glee has never accompanied any of my periods. i'm feeling slightly cheated....
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    Image of LuvEwan LuvEwan
    07/15/09

    In reply to "Foxy Knoxy" Defense Not Doing Well • World's "Oldest Mother" Reported Dead At 69
    "A graphic novel of Twilight is on the way, with characters that look like "an amalgam of Meyer's literary imagination and the actors' actual looks.""



    So that would be "nothing" crossed with "RPattz and Kristen Stewart"?

    (I keed, I keed. Another poor and bitter English major.)
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    Image of Vivelafat says Sweep the leg, Johnny. Vivelafat says Sweep the leg, Johnny.
    07/15/09

    In reply to "Foxy Knoxy" Defense Not Doing Well • World's "Oldest Mother" Reported Dead At 69
    Also, I hate that movies will forever sculpt your idea of how characters in books look. I can't picture Edward without thinking of R Patz, and I really don't think he fit the character at all.

    If they are going to make a graphic novel why not go with completely different looking interpretations? Oh yeah, because that wouldn't sell.
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    Image of KiddyKat KiddyKat
    07/15/09

    @Vivelafat says Sweep the leg, Johnny.: Well, if you didn't have Rob and Kristen, you'd have to rely on the written dialogue for success. And that would just be stupid in this case.
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    Image of Vivelafat says Sweep the leg, Johnny. Vivelafat says Sweep the leg, Johnny.
    07/15/09

    @KiddyKat: I don't think there was a single compound sentence in the entire book. Seriously, my boss was bragging about how is daughter had read the book 6 times. Maybe after the second time he should have taken the book away from her and given her something a little more substantial.
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    Image of Bunsen Honeydew Bunsen Honeydew
    07/15/09

    In reply to "Foxy Knoxy" Defense Not Doing Well • World's "Oldest Mother" Reported Dead At 69
    Does Amanda Knox's sister want even more of a circus to unfold around this case? WHY WOULD YOU WEAR THAT? Especially to a family member's major court case.
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    07/15/09

    @Bunsen Honeydew: It's Patriotic!
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    07/15/09

    @Bunsen Honeydew: Because you love America!
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    Image of quatrevingtquatre quatrevingtquatre
    07/15/09

    @Bunsen Honeydew: because you're 14 and evidently no one stopped you?
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    Image of queenieinmanhattan queenieinmanhattan
    07/15/09

    @Bunsen Honeydew: Fourth of July, hello!
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    Image of Vivelafat says Sweep the leg, Johnny. Vivelafat says Sweep the leg, Johnny.
    07/15/09

    In reply to "Foxy Knoxy" Defense Not Doing Well • World's "Oldest Mother" Reported Dead At 69
    The entire Amanda Knox thing really vexes me. I was certain that she was innocent and a victim of the Italian press, but I read an article that really seemed to prove her guilt. I can't be certain whether I am being biased for her by the deplorable behavior of the Italian media and police force.

    I feel particularly connected to her because I grew up in Europe and was always frightened of being accused of some crime while being so far away from my home.
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    07/15/09

    @Vivelafat says Sweep the leg, Johnny.: I am unsure about the Knox situation as well, but became more inclined to believe her innocence after reading The Monster of Florence. Devil-connected "extreme sex games" sound pretty fucking unlikely, but it's a good way to explain how something awful could happen in Italy.



    And for the fuck of shit, Mom Knox, you couldn't control your minor daughter to not show up to court, let alone in red, white and blue? (I'm hesitant about the charges of hot pants-- if you follow the links to the Daily Mail article, they're just shorts, not Daisy Dukes.)
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    07/15/09

    @Vivelafat says Sweep the leg, Johnny.: I feel the same way, and really just don't know what to make of it. In some ways it clearly seems like a frameup by a prosecutor run amok, but there are all these strange inconsistencies that may or may not point to her guilt, depending on how you interpret them. It's just perplexing.
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    Image of LaFemme LaFemme
    07/15/09

    @Vivelafat says Sweep the leg, Johnny.: I have always thought she was probably guilty, if not of the actual murder than at least knowing it would happen, or perhaps conspiring to have someone else kill her roommate. I think she has been treated terribly, not been given a fair trial, and definitely shamed unnecessarily in the media; something about the inconsistencies though, I just cannot jump on the bandwagon that vehemently denies any possible involvement.
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    07/15/09

    @chritter is a nocturnal feminist mancatfish: The fact that she was told she was positive for HIV while she was in prison really made me strongly doubt anything the prosecutors say. But it is the inconsistencies that bother me. Why couldn't she and her boyfriend get their stories straight about their whereabouts? Why is someone that has already been convicted of the crime implicating her?
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    07/15/09

    @Vivelafat says Sweep the leg, Johnny.: Common sense and Occam's Razor would seem to indicate that what happened was a burglary/home invasion that turned into a rape-murder. Rudy Guede, the man who was convicted and sentenced for it, said nothing to implicate Knox and her boyfriend, at least not at first, then changed his story when it became clear all the evidence pointed at him. The whole Satanic sex ritual angle seems utterly outlandish and ridiculous, dreamed up to fan tabloid fervor and shame the evil foreign vixen.
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    Image of Vivelafat says Sweep the leg, Johnny. Vivelafat says Sweep the leg, Johnny.
    07/15/09

    @Ipomoea is a joyful girl: It was also pretty classless for all of the Knox women to be photographed in front of crime scene house. What were they thinking?
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    Image of bluewine bluewine
    07/15/09

    @chritter is a nocturnal feminist mancatfish: Occam's Razor is also why I think she's probably innocent. I'm sad to hear that her trial is going to badly. Based on the way it's been handled from the start, it never really seemed like she had a shot at getting an 'innocent' verdict, regardless of how the trial went.
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    07/15/09

    @Vivelafat says Sweep the leg, Johnny.: The Daily Mail posed them there. I don't understand why they wouldin' thtink "hmm, British media, they love us so much already, is this a good idea?"
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    07/15/09

    @chritter is a nocturnal feminist mancatfish: Occam's Razor and my dislike for how the case has been handled are what formed my opinion as well. Satanic sex rituals are almost laughable to me, maybe in 1985 that line of reasoning would have been a little bit more believable, but really does anyone worship Satan anymore? There are just a few details that bother me, and I wish they could be explained to my satisfaction. I do not envy the jurors on this case.
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    Image of shanASS shanASS
    07/15/09

    @chritter is a nocturnal feminist mancatfish: One of the things in The Monster of Florence was that the easiest explanation was follow the gun used in the murders from the original unrelated murder and you'll find the serial killer the story revolves around, but the Italian prosecutor decided that was too obvious and had to be a red herring, so he went for the sex games/satanic cults/bodies switched from graves/total madness angle. It would seem Occam's Razor points toward Rudy Guede, but the prosecutor seems nuts.
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    07/15/09

    @Vivelafat says Sweep the leg, Johnny.: @bluewine: Who knew Occam had so many admirers? We should organize a Jezebel Auxiliary 'Friends of Occam' club.
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    Image of emilyanne emilyanne
    07/15/09

    @Ipomoea is a joyful girl: Actually if you read the piece an Italian women's magazine called Gente posed them there. The photos were then widely available and used by other media. Nothing to do with the Mail beyond reprinting them.
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    07/16/09

    @shanASS: Exactly. We have a known home invader with a knife who was caught a month earlier in an attempted burglary, versus an apparently well-liked, never-been-in-trouble exchange student with perhaps a fondness for the hash pipe and liaisons with foreign boys as her most noteworthy flaws. Not that crazy things don't happen, but extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, and that seems in very short supply in this case.
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    Image of badmutha badmutha
    07/15/09

    In reply to "Foxy Knoxy" Defense Not Doing Well • World's "Oldest Mother" Reported Dead At 69
    This is all just a bit much for me on a hump day. The Iranian woman tortured herself out of gullt? Tony Alamo and 8 year olds? Likening a shelter to a sex club? World, you are spinning out of control. Jane! Stop this crazy thing!
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